Saud bin Nayef

Saud bin Nayef (born 1956) was the Saudi Arabian ambassador to Spain from 2003 to 2011 and the Governor of the Eastern Province from 2013, succeeding Mohammed bin Fahd.

Biography
Saud bin Nayef was born in 1956 to Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia, and received a bachelor degree in arts and economics from the University of Portland in the United States. From 1993 to 2003 he was the Deputy Governor of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, and in 2013 he was made the new governor, succeeding Mohammed bin Fahd. Saud, serving as a minister, governed the oil-rich region after an eight-year term as ambassador to Spain, during which time he had an interfaith meeting in 2009 in Madrid with American and Israeli rabbis along with Wahhabi clerics.